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The Fall of Light

by Niall Williams
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Synopsis

Teige Foley was only a boy when his mother vanished angrily into the Irish mist. His father, Francis, a man of thwarted dreams,dared to steal a valuable telescope from his employer. His passage to the stars, its theft forced Francis to flee with his four sons the narrow life of poverty that imprisoned them. Ireland was a country wilder than it is now and the young boys would lose sight of their father. Apart and adrift, reunited and reborn, each would find his own path and learnin his own way the callings of God, the power of love and the meaning of family.

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Book Details

Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pages
503
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780754017912

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